damnatory

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Now there is nothing more damnatory than a sentence of this kind. 

From Immortal Memories by Shorter, Clement King

As if to feed his mind with hope, he would recapitulate to himself all the weighty and damnatory details which environed Cashel, and which, by their singular consistency and coherence, seemed irrefutable.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

He at once incriminated himself, and was soon induced to bring damnatory accusations against his friends.

From The Last Look A Tale of the Spanish Inquisition by Kingston, William Henry Giles

With regard to one or two damnatory charges, he implicitly believed them to be true, but he failed to secure any substantial proof whatever.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles

We remember two criticisms of the same work in the same week: one laudatory, especially of the facility and accuracy of its classical translations; the other damnatory for its cumbrous and unscholarlike versions.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various